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Minor Feelings
A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-559-4
EAN 9781788165594
What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings".The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-698-0
EAN 9781788166980
On a dark night two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into a house.They beat and traumatised the occupants, then left, taking only a bracelet. No one knows why, not even Luke, Rob's younger brother and Paige's confidant. Paige disappeared after that night.And having spent her life in children's homes and the foster system, ...
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x + y
A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-041-4
EAN 9781788160414
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-283-8
EAN 9781788162838
'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian'Truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for the future' - Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian EnoHow does the mind connect to the body? Why ...
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What we need to do Now
For a Zero Carbon Future
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-477-1
EAN 9781788164771
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include: -Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-436-8
EAN 9781788164368
Thomas Brogan is a serial killer.With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he climbs up into the ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-259-3
EAN 9781788162593
Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them.Something Doesn't Add Up ...
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The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-020-9
EAN 9781788160209
We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed.To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-405-4
EAN 9781788164054
What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life through two decades ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-754-3
EAN 9781788167543
This ground-breaking book exposes the myths behind startup success, illuminates the real forces at work and shows how they can be harnessed in your favour. The world isn't a level playing field. Meritocracy is a myth.And if you look at those at the top, you realise that behind every success story is an Unfair Advantage. ...
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Figuring Out the Past
The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-192-3
EAN 9781788161923
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-658-4
EAN 9781788166584
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, ...
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